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smatch

smatch noun: a smack or taste.

Noun

smatch (plural smatches)

  1. (obsolete) A smack or taste.
  2. (obsolete) A trace quantity; a smattering or smidgeon.
    • Thy life hath had some smatch of honour in it1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

Verb

smatch (third-person singular simple present smatches, present participle smatching, simple past and past participle smatched)

  1. (ambitransitive, obsolete) To have a taste; to taste (something).
  2. (ambitransitive, obsolete) To have a feeling; to smack (of something).
    • Allowing his description therein to retain and smatche of veritie1578, John Banister, The Historie of Man, from the most approved Authorities in this Present Age

smatch meaning in Tamil

smatch in Tamil

தெட்டு

Forms of smatch

Noun
pluralsmatches
Verb
third-person singular presentsmatches
present participlesmatching
past participlesmatched
pastsmatched

Origin of smatch

From Middle English smacchen, smecchen (“to taste”), from Old English smæċċan (“to taste”), from Proto-West Germanic *smakkijan (“to taste”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *smeh₂g- (“to taste”). Cognate with West Frisian smeitse, smeitsje (“to taste”), Dutch smaken (“to taste”), German schmecken (“to taste”), Danish smage (“to taste”), Norwegian smake (“to taste”), Norwegian smak (“a taste”), Lithuanian smagù (“cheerful, enjoyable, pleasant”).

Questions about smatch

What does smatch mean?
Smatch means a smack or taste.
What is smatch in Tamil?
Smatch in Tamil is தெட்டு. See Smatch meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is smatch?
Smatch can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of smatch?
The plural of smatch is smatches.

Words near smatch in the dictionary

  1. smashup
  2. smashups
  3. Smasnug
  4. smaste
  5. smastes
  6. smatch
  7. smatched
  8. smatches
  9. smatchet
  10. smatchets
  11. smatching

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: smatch (page history and authors); smatch (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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